UCLA reviews

4.1

76% would recommend to a friend

(5,739 total reviews)
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70% approve of CEO

61% positive business outlook

UCLA has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 5,739 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The UCLA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Mar 6, 2017
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Pros

If you likes sunny and dry weather and like the beach, UCLA is a good choice.

Cons

Lots of immature professor works at UCLA in biology and related field. Professors does not know how to manage students. No advices given for job searching and job opportunities. Very little teaching from professors to students. Long hours, low pay. 80 hours workweek is consider normal. Many professor yell at and insult students, call them "stupid, idiot, incompetent, etc." Many professor want to start a company and think they are big shot, but they are not. Student is expect to bow down to professor like they are President Trump.

5.0
Dec 6, 2016
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Pros

Great Benefits, room for career growth, and educational advancement.

Cons

Middle and Sr. management position are primarily internal promotions. Higher paying positions above $65,000 are rare due to long term employees who have not retired and minor turnover at the senior management level. Some management skills and technique's need to be updated. Many hourly staff leave the department or UCLA as a whole due to poor management and leadership.

1.0
Jun 30, 2016
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Pros

I was initially excited to meet the PhD and hear about his research, which involves novel approaches and embraces technology in a way traditional research usually doesn't. The work seemed intriguing and it seemed like there was potential for growth.

Cons

Immediately after I was hired, the only other staff member quit. They later confided in me that they had wished they'd been able to warn me before they left not to accept the job but they feared reprisal. The former employee alleges that he was borderline abusive and likely violated ADA at least once. In my time there, I was regularly gaslighted, an emotional abuse technique that has no place in the office or anywhere decent humans are. I was asked to do research work that was in direct violation of the IRB standards and requested to write papers that included unethical omissions and some outright lies. I was promised advanced technical work but we relegated to increasingly mundane tasks, like putting up fliers, and was put in charge of interns, who I was asked to overwork and lie to about what reasonable expectations of time and effort were. While hourly, I was asked to always be on call and responding that that was both illegal and an inappropriate expectation did not go over well. I soon left for another position after I saw him reduce a middle aged woman to tears and refuse to either fire her or not fire her but simply insisting 'we'll have to see'. I strongly advise all applicants to look for work elsewhere in the UCLA Health system.

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